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WALID SABA

  • Principal AI Scientist and Contributor, Freelance
Menlo Park
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WALID SABA’s Biography

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Dr. Walid Saba is a Principal AI Scientist at Astound. Prior to this he was the Co-Founder and the CTO of Klangoo, the developer of the Magnet digital content semantic engine. Walid has over 20 years of experience in IT holding various positions at such places as the American Institutes for Research, AT&T Bell Labs, Metlife, Nortel Networks, IBM and Cognos. He has also spent 7 years in academia where he has taught computer science at Carelton University, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, …

WALID SABA’s Journalist Portfolio

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Walid Saba: The Myth of Data-Driven Natural Language Understanding and How to go Forward (Again)

Walid Saba: The Myth of Data-Driven Natural Language Understanding and How to go Forward (Again)

Back to the Drawing Board: The Myth of Data-Driven Natural Language Understanding and How to go Forward (Agai…

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The 6 levels of virtual agent intelligence

The 6 levels of virtual agent intelligence

The 6 levels of virtual agent intelligence is a webcast with Dr. Naghi Prasad and Dr. Walid Saba of Astound.a…

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The Myth of Data-Driven Natural Language Understanding

The Myth of Data-Driven Natural Language Understanding

A short presentation on the difference between NLP and NLU and why the Data-Driven approach, while useful for…

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Deep misconceptions and the myth of data driven NLU

Deep misconceptions and the myth of data driven NLU

A long write-up that explains why the data-driven (and machine learning) approach to NLU is a futile effort a…

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BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD - The Myth of Data-Driven NLU and How to go Forward (Again)

BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD - The Myth of Data-Driven NLU and How to go Forward (Again)

This is a talk given at SRI International on Ontological vs Logical Concepts and Quantitative/Data-Driven NLU

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NLU Is Not NLP++

NLU Is Not NLP++

This is a plea to the technical community working in the domain of natural language processing and natural la…

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Communications of the ACM

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By Gregory Mone, Herbert Bruderer, Ted Selker, WALID SABA
| Communications of the ACM Verified
When Mark Kuemerle, vice president of technology at semiconductor manufacturer Marvell, needed to familiarize some new engineering hires with one of the challenges facing their industry, he borrowed a bunch of LEGO blocks from his kids. He presented the group with a select number of mismatched blocks. The pieces, Kuemerle explained to his new initiates, were meant to represent different chips with particular functions.
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Technical Marvels, Part 7: Musical Clocks and Organs

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By Herbert Bruderer, Ted Selker, WALID SABA
| Communications of the ACM Verified
Many clocks contain musical mechanisms: table clocks, standing clocks, longcase clocks, flute-playing clocks, and pocket watches. Automaton figures, furniture (e.g. desks), jewelry, as well as picture clocks sometimes also have built-in musical mechanisms. For the musical program, historical systems used different sound recording media: pinned cylinder, perforated disc, perforated cardboard tape, and perforated paper roll were widely used.
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Communications of the ACM

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By David Gray Widder, Claire Le Goues, Ted Selker, WALID SABA
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“Perception always intercedes between reality and ourselves.”1 Considerable effort in software research and practice is spent on bugs. Finding bugs, reporting and tracking them, triaging them, attempting to fix them automatically, detecting “bug smells”—these comprise a substantial portion of large projects’ time and development costs, and are a significant subject of study for researchers in software engineering, programming languages, security, and beyond. But, what is a bug, exactly?
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